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perhaps have constituted the settlement which appears in the census 

 of 1932-33 as Autauga or the one occupied by the Okchaiutci Indians. 

 As noted above, Okchaiutci, or Little Okchai, was an Alabama offshoot 

 which seems to have owed its name to the fact that the Alabama had at 

 one time formed one town with the Okchai Indians, or at least lived in 

 close conjunction with them. This name appears first in 1750 and the 

 town is said to have maintained a separate existence even after the 

 removal to Oklahoma, but it now survives only as a ceremonial name. 

 The Alabama Indians in Oklahoma still (1928) maintain a Square 

 Ground in the neighborhood of Weleetka. In 1761 we hear of a branch 

 village called Wetumpka. 



The Muklasa Indians were probably a branch of the Alabama, but 

 they have been treated separately. 



Alabama populaUon. — ^In 1702 Iberville estimated 400 families of 

 Alabama in 2 villages, and a census taken by the English in 1715 

 gives 4 villages with a total population of 770, including 214 men. 

 Both of these are exclusive of the Tawasa and Pawokti. A French 

 document of the third decade of the same century gives 6 towns and 

 400 men, probably including the Tawasa and Pawokti. The following 

 figures for the warriors or hunters are given for the Alabama alone, 

 not including the Tawasa or Okchaiutci : 15 in 1750, 150 in 1760, 70 

 in 1761, 60 in 1792, 80 in 1799. For Okchaiutci we have: 40 in 

 1750, 100 in 1760, 20 in 1761, 40 in 1792. Writing in 1814, Stiggins 

 ventures an estimate of 2,000 as the total Alabama population, but this 

 is too high. In the census of 1832-33 they are represented only by the 

 towns of Tawasa and Autauga with 321 Indians and 21 Negro slaves. 



Sibley, writing in 1805, estimates 30 to 40 men respectively for 

 the two towns in Louisiana. In 1817 Morse says there were 160 

 Alabama Indians in Texas. In 1882 the United States Indian Office 

 estimated 290 Alabama, Koasati, and Muskogee in Texas, and it repeats 

 these figures till 1901 when 470 are given on the authority of the census 

 of 1900. This in turn was repeated until 1911, but in 1910 a special 

 agent was sent to the tribe and he reported 192, a figure which was 

 again copied in several subsequent reports. The United States Census 

 of 1910 returned 187 Alabama in Texas and 111 in Louisiana, a total of 

 298. No separate enumeration of the Alabama in Oklahoma has been 

 made, so far as I am aware. 



AMACANO 



A tribe associated with the Caparaz and Chine tribes in the doc- 

 trina of San Luis on the seacoast of the Apalachee country. It was 

 established in 1674. They might have been part of the Yamasee. 

 The three towns in which these tribes lived contained 300 persons, 



